The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-06

were also unbounded The politicians of
the old parties were alarmed, the trim
mers began to cast their ewes to-
ward the anxious seat but since
the beginning of the year the changes
IN tho s.d labor y politics; especially in
distracting and ominous. There is war in
the camp, war of factions as bitter as ever
was waged We have three labor parties
IN this State. We have two sets of candi-
dates, with other sets yet to be heard from.
The Union Labor party, the George land
party and the Socialist party are now at
each others Threats. The enraged belliger-
entS are indulging in mutual defiance and in
denunciation that goes as far as pirates"
"cranks, "boodlers and so on. The George
party, at its Sl racllse convention, shut its
doors against the union laborels, cast out
the Socialist laborers, and tolerated only
such united labCrers as swore by the theory
of land taxation. All these three parties,
which had but lately marched in
one procession, along with many other
clements, are in hostile array, as
though they had never drunk out of
the same canteen" And so the whole stu
alton, as regards labor politics, has changed
from what it was last fall The wrangling
has extended from district to district in the
city; 1T has broken out in the labor organi
cations; it has extended to the Central La
Dor Union, in which the new party had its
birth short year ago; it has played havoc
with the unity in labor politics which looked
so formidable last fall; it must inevitably
split the labor vote IN a way which prevents
any predictions based upon the result of
last NovemberS elections; it will surely
drive back with the old camp thousands of
voters who broke loose year ago, but who
are disguised with the present uprcar; and
1t is, in every way, a bad business for Labor
politics. 1t is complicated, too, with in
tolerant personal rivalries, with the "re-
lgious firebrandp of ex- Father McGlynn,
with the frenzied exhibitions of the anti
Poverty Society, and with schemes which
bear a mercenary stamp upon their face
The three factions are, without doubt, ire
concilable as long as they stand upon their
antagonistic platforms which cannot, by
any possibility, be harmonlzed, and are not
easily changed The George party cannot
give up their single-tax theory, which the
Union labor party cannot accept; the So
cialist labor party, driven to the wall by
both the others, hoists its own colors to the
tune of no surrender And thus it is that
labor politics stand in New York to-day, in
view of the election which will take place
two months hence. and which will influence
the Presidential campaign of 1888.
TRADING WITH OLD PARTIES.
Inc WOTSJ feature OF uDe WHOIS Case is
that charges of trading with the old party
leaders, and of bargain and sale, are flung
against each other by the three factions,
Facts came to light in the early part of this
year, in evidence of the accusation that GER
tain managers of Mr.. Georges last cam
paign, who are yet in the business of man
agement, trafficked for votes With both Re-
publican and Democratic candidates, and it
is certain that their opportunities now are
far greater than they were then. The Union
Labor party is infested with blacklegs of the
same breed, as every man acquainted with
our local politics knows; and of the
three factions, the Socialists alone, who are
mainly Germans, are free from the stigma
of trading or dickering. The fact is that
disappointed mercenaries of the old party
are always on the lookout for such prey as
is offered in third parties, and especially in
the Labor party, and more especially after
such experiences as those of last November,
when the Labor party became an object of
interest to all politicians The greatest
danger for labor politics is that of being
wrecked by such mercenaries.
This brief survey of the labor field, as
seen from New York, i'll the light of this
years strikes, and the decline in the princi-
pal labor organizations and the wrangling
of leaders, and the splits in labor politics
contain several lessons of warning to those
concerned. JOHN SwINToN.